Did You Know?

Hull, or Kingston upon Hull, is a port city in East Yorkshire. Where the River Hull meets the river Humber, The Deep aquarium is a building with an underwater viewing tunnel and hands-on displays. In the old town’s Museums Quarter, the Street life Museum focuses on modes of transport. Wilberforce House, birthplace of William Wilberforce, documents the abolition of the slave trade

Hull was selected as the City of Culture in 2017, it offers many tourist attractions including East Riding Museum, Wilberforce House and the Maritime Centre.

William Wilberforce lived at 25 High Street Hull, he was famous for is opposition the the slave trade and campaigned until its abolition.

The boiled sweet was first invented in Kingston upon Hull, which is also the birthplace of the following medical treatments: Lemsip, Bonjela and Gaviscon.

On St George’s Day in 1642 King Charles I was refused entry to Kingston upon Hull. This led to the Siege of Hull, which has been described as the first major action of the English Civil War.

Kingston upon Hull is home to The Deep, which calls itself the “world’s only submarium”. Visitors may see its 3,500 fish, including sharks and manta rays, while walking under the water through a viewing tunnel.

The paprika-based cult started in the old Yankee burger takeaway in Jameson Street and has since spread across the UK.

The liquid crystal display (LCD) was developed by the University of Hull City of Culture, led by the late Professor George Gray in the early 1970s, was the starting point for the technology behind laptop computers and flat-screen TVs.

Robinson Crusoe, sets sail from the Queen’s Dock in Kingston upon Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career instead.

Actress Maureen Lipman musician Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals) TV weatherman Alex Deakin actress Debra Stephenson writer Derren Litten (Benidorm) actor Roy North (Mr Roy from Basil Brush) John Venn (inventor of the Venn Diagram) and musician Mick Ronson (Ziggy Stardust’s Spiders from Mars) were all born in Hull.

The Housemartins were an English alternative rock band formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s. Many of the Housemartins’ lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton’s beliefs at the time.

Cream Telephone box, Kingston upon Hull is the only City within the UK to have its own telephone system outside of the BT Network, and Cream telephone boxes was used to show our independence.